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Base station for wireless digital telephone system

US4777633A · kind A · utility

88Cited by
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15Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateAug 14, 1987
Grant dateOct 11, 1988
Priority date
Expiry dateAug 14, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04W92/12
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A base station for use in a subscriber communication network for communicating signals between subscriber stations and an external communication network having a plurality of ports includes a communication circuit for enabling simultaneous communications between a plurality of the ports and a plurality of the subscriber stations over a given communication channel having multiple sequentially repetitive time slots; an exchange for connecting the communication circuit to the external communication network ports; and a remote-connection processor coupled to the communication circuit by the exchange and by a base-station control channel occupying a selected one of the time slots for monitoring the status of the other time slots and for causing the communication circuit and the exchange to complete a connection between a given external communication network port and a given subscriber station over a time slot assigned in response to the monitored status in accordance with a predetermined assignment routine.

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